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Le jour de l’investiture de Barack Obama, un énigmatique millionnaire venu d’un lointain Orient prend ses quartiers dans une communauté préservée au coeur de Greenwich Village avec ses trois fils adultes aussi brillants qu’excentriques. René Unterlinden, jeune...
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Deux ans, huit mois et vingt-huit nuits est un conte merveilleux qui interroge notre vie contemporaine à la lumière de l’histoire et de la mythologie. Échappés de leur univers aussi fabuleux qu’ennuyeux, des djinns viennent mêler leur immortalité fascinée à la finitude...
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LE livre le plus attendu de Rushdie : celui qui raconte la fatwa, la vie d'un écrivain basculant soudain dans la peur et dans la clandestinité, dont le paradoxe est d'avoir engendré une célébrité phénoménale.
Le 14 février 1989, le jour de la Saint Valentin, Salman...
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***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a...
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**New York Times bestseller**A Guardian / Observer Book of the YearWhen powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into a grand...
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Salman Rushdie, a self-described ‘emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two’, explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it is like to...
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Blending history, mythology and a timeless love story, this is a satirical, magical masterpiece from one of the greatest living writers.In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no...
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From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down.On Valentine’s Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life...
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No dia 14 de Fevereiro de 1989, Dia dos Namorados, Salman recebeu um telefonema de uma jornalista da BBC a dizer-lhe que fora «condenado à morte» pelo aiatola Khomeini. Era a primeira vez que ouvia a palavra fatwa. O seu crime? Ter escrito ...
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Flapping Eagle is a young Indian given the gift of immortality after drinking a magic fluid. Tiring of the burden of immortal life he sets off to find the mystical Calf Island, where he can rejoin the human race. His journey is peopled with strange assortments of...
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